YouTube - Climbing a 1786 ft. Transmission Tower! CRAZY!

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Saw this on another site a while back; personally, if it were possible to get me up there to begin with (it ain't !) they'd be able to take cast impressions of my fingerprints in the aluminum girders and ladder rungs . . . .

"...then, it's time to go outside the tower..." and evacuate your bowels.

GF

Thanks but no way you would get me up there.

I am a licensed pilot with over 7,000 hours as PIC. There is no way I would get that high off the ground without a seat, wings and motor around me.

A local tv news crew played part of this clip and mentioned that climbing their tower at a little over 1,200 feet takes a few hours to climb. I do not think there is enough money to get me up there.

Must of been interesting to watch it being built!

......moon

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NRA Life Member

I got twinges in private places just trying to watch this.


Bullseye

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Five screws and 3-1/2 inches.

Mine would have evacuated on the third step! I seriously got dizzy just watching that video!

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Misty

That almost made me physically ill.
(I have problems with a 10 ft. ladder. I can get to the top, but then can't figure out how to let go with one hand to do whatever I went up there for.)

I think I would want a parachute. About the time those storm clouds showed up, I would learn how to base jump.

I wonder how much the top of that tower sways in the wind?

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Dean
SWCA #680 SWHF #446

I, too, would have loved to see how this tower was built. Whatever the guys in this video are paid, it is not enough!!!

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Miss My Buddy crsides!!

OMG! No way. What do those guys get paid?? I wouldn't go up the elevator.

Right around 5:43 I think I saw a lightning bolt on the right side, maybe it was a cloud??

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Still Running Against the Wind

I am just like oldman. I even flew some stunts years ago and now I am afraid to service the cooler on our roof! You could offer me bill gates fortune and I would turn it down! I remember once working as a guard at lockheed I was suppose to escourt some workers on our highest hanger roof to do something. Well walking the roof wasnt real bad, but a lid was moved so we could go down a steel ladder to do some work on those steel frame beams. I could not bring myself to step on that ladder and go down where you could see workers on the hanger floor about a 150 ft below!

I had to turn it off when he "went outside" and started pulling up the tool bag.

I wonder what that guy gets paid an hour?! Theyd have to give me a bonus for extra underwear and doctors bills.........

Amazing!!!------

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WALSTIB

I disagree with this statement..."seeing storm clouds, he checks on the lightning conditions. If a storm's blowing through there's no quick way down."

LOL, I think there's a very quick way down, just not the way I'd wanna come down.
Did you notice at the very top both of his hands were free for a very long time? If it was me up there, I'd end up with metal slivers in both hands and my teeth to boot!
Regards

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Alabama Hunter Ed Instructor

what about the guys that put it up? i dont think i could do it, so whats the pay for this job anyway?

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WILL WORK FOR AMMO!

I would guess it was put up with heavy lift Helicopters
Still wouldn't want to be the guy that had to put the bolts in.

(Or maybe they built it laying down, and then just stood it up.)

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Dean
SWCA #680 SWHF #446

Darn, left the screwdriver in the truck...

My ham radio club has a couple of repeaters at the 1300' level of a commercial broadcast tower with the local university's PBS FM and TV stations transmitters. Effective radiated power of the BC stations is 250,000 watts. Our 200 watt FM repeaters are beneath small change! I've been dying to get up there but I live almost 40 miles away and always seem to miss the opportunities. The tower has an elevator, so no ladder or stair climbing for hours up and down. Harnesses are required though, in case the elevator fails.

Russ

I've spent a lot of time off the ground working with lights and conveyors, but, half-way thru the clip, my hands started getting REAL
sweaty! I've never been a fan of "tie-ing off" but I'd make an exception
on that tower. IF I could even get off the elevator...
I wonder if those guys have money invested in Brass futures, 'cause
they've got some big ones.
TACC1

I went over to help my Dad today.Wanted some branches cut.I wound up on the roof and that was enough for me.

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Dum vivo cano

If my climbing that tower would save the economy, end war forever, and cause Godzilla to eat Paris Hilton during the Grammy awards I wouldn't go up there....

I was a boilermaker for a few years and have climbed as high as 900' on a tower before. Its amazing how tired you get. On one job a tower crane was set up at the top of a 900' stack and it would lift us to the top of the adjacent tower. We would harness up and stand on top of the steel "ball" that the hook was attached to. We would safety off to the cable and wave our hand. When the crane took off it would lift and turn at the same time and the cable would swing out like a pendulum. It took minutes to get to the top on the cable and the wind was unbelievably strong at that height by the river. On one lift the crane stopped and I just hung there at 700' for over an hour. Another time one of the foremen cursed out the crane operator for taking his union break while we were all in line to go up. When it was his turn the crane operator lifted him up, took him over the water and dunked him. Then he turned a few 360's as he lifted him 900' to the top. That pretty much ended that feud.

Many years ago there was a pilot by the name of mira slovak that escaped russia flying a airliner full of people to freedom. He had a picture in his hanger that gave me the chills. I dont know if he somehow took it or not, but a woman in the raf was sradeling the fuesulage of a spitfire in flight with her arms and legs wrapped around just in front of the tail clinging for dear life and she was laying backwards. Evidently she must have been walking the tail around or something when the pilot took off without knowing!

I worked for the telephone company 38 years & have climbed many old, rotten, high poles, some as high as 90 ft. But in all my born days I've never had the desire to go that high except in a plane. I also wonder who on earth ever built that tower. Somebody had to be there before this movie was taken. I bet the guy that designed it never climbed it.

I have ran conduit up stacks that the ladder wasn't inclosed in the old days. Stand on the ladder with a linemans belt around the ladder so you could use your hands to pull up the pipe and screw it in , then fasten it down. Can't do it now, if I could get my legs back I would do it in a heart beat.

When climbing radio and TV towers in a past job the best part was a lunch break at 700 feet to pause and look at the scenery.But when you would lean back to take the slack out of the harness cable that half inch of slack seemed like a foot before the cable became tight!
What bothered me most was if you broke into a sweat on a cool day the wind would them give me the chills in my back and soon muscles would start to cramp.

When painting smokestacks (from the top down) you never wanted to be the fastest as you wore the splatter from the other guys.

Tom